Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 11:26:53 EST
* Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 266590464 L1d-loads (scaled from 23.03%)
>
> IMHO "L1d" is too abbreviated for it to be obvious that it means
> L1 data cache. If you want something really short maybe "L1-d$"
> might be a little clearer, but I stil like "L1-dcache" best.
I find 'dcache' extremely confusing given that we have a dcache in
Linux already.
Ingo
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